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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List of Percy Shelley's reading, 1819. Most texts are mentioned in journal entries so are not given separate entries here] 'Greek The Greek Tr...Percy Bysshe Shelley Pedro Calderon de la BarcaLa devocion de la CruzPrint: Book
1800-1849'Nobody could possibly be better fitted out in every respect for collecting than I am: many cooks have not spoiled the broth this time; Mr Brownes little hints about micr...Charles Darwin La Dictionnaire ClassiquePrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 5 March 1905: 'De Vigny has come. I haven't read him all, but I'm rather disappointed: isn't he rather metallic? I read a good deal i...Leonard Woolf Voltaire La Dictionnaire PhilosophiquePrint: Book
1700-1799Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789"Lady Eleanor Butler DanteLa Divina CommediaPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 24 September 1930: 'I am reading Dante; & my present view of reading is to elongate immensely. I take a week over one canto. No hurry.'Virginia Woolf Dante AlighieriLa Divina CommediaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read some of the Farinata Canto [Canto 10 of "La Divina Commedia"]' Gertrude Bell Dante AlighieriLa Divina Commedia Print: Book
1900-1945' We shall go to Kish on the way back and if only the weather is nice it will be delightful. It has been raining in such torrents that I hope we may have a dry spell for ...Gertrude Bell Dante AlighieriLa Divina CommediaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Round by San Vitale and Galla Placidia's tomb — such a dark beautiful blue in the morning light and home to the hotel where we met Mr Hogarth who took us to the Library ...Gertrude Bell Dante AlighieriLa Divina Commedia (Canto V)Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Friday May 18th. [...] Read the Donna Volubile by Goldoni.'Claire Clairmont Carlo GoldoniLa Donna volubilePrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday April 27th. Birthday 23. [...] Because it is my Birthday I amuse myself [...] lest the day should appear to odious to me so I read Goldoni. La Vedova Scaltra ...Claire Clairmont Carlo GoldoniLa Famiglia dell'antiquarioPrint: Book
1900-1945'23rd March 1929 (Saturday). Bought a ?Monde?, a ?Canard Enchain??, and Goncourt?s ?La Faustin? then spent the afternoon reading. ? La Faustin? (Edmond Goncourt)'. Gerald Moore Edmond GoncourtLa FaustinPrint: Book
1700-1799[Marginalia]: A poem on the verso of the title page, though not entirely legible, appears to be related to the text. It takes the form of 8 lines, 4 rhyming couplets, beg...B.B. Preston Guillaume-Hyacinthe Bougeant,La femme docteur ou la theologie tombee en quenoui...Print: Book
1850-1899Henry James writes (in French) in letter of 26 September 1898 to Paul Bourget of reading Pierre Louys' novel "La Femme et le Pantin", at Bourget's recommendation. Henry James Pierre LouysLa Femme et le PantinPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 5 March 1845: 'I am in the midst of "La Femme superieure." [sic] The truth of this work & the subtlety & deepness of the [i...Elizabeth Barrett Honore de BalzacLa Femme superieurPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 November 1844: 'What works of Casimir Delavigne have you read? [...] I have read "Louis the Eleventh [sic]," "Marino Fa...Mary Russell Mitford Casimir DelavigneLa Fille du CidPrint: Book
1850-1899'The French stories by Julliot are dull and odious, and the little novel ''La Folle du Logis'' quite pretty and nice. How very odd the French are.'Emma Darwin Francois de JulliotLa Folle du LogisPrint: Book
1850-1899Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourget’s Physiologie de l’Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux Entr’actes. Ribot Maladies de la Volonté. In Flaubert’s Co...Vernon Lee Emile ZolaLa Fortune des RougonPrint: Book
1900-1945'29th March, Tuesday. ?La Gar?onne? V. Marguerite. 30th March, Wednesday. These last few days I have been reading Marguerite?s ?La Gar?onne?. I am disappointed. ...Gerald Moore V. MargueriteLa Gar?onnePrint: Book
1900-1945I have not read 'La Garçonne'. I got about half way through it and then I had to give up, not because of its indecency but because it its dullness, poorness, and badness...Arnold Bennett Victor MargueritteLa GarconnePrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Dec. [...] 17th. [...] Rainy day Read Cox's [sic] Guide to Italy -- Mary reads aloud 1st Canto of Tasso'.Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Torquato TassoLa Gerusalemme liberataPrint: Book


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